Jessica Alba is an American actress more known for her sexy body than her acting. In fact, Jessica was dubbed in 2001 as the no. 1 sexiest women in Maxim’s Top 100 list. People Magazine named Jessica in 2005 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People of the world. Two years later, the same recognition was repeated by the same magazine. This feat was duplicated in a long list of magazines like FHM, Empire Magazine, GQ, Men’s Health among others, that named her either as one of the most beautiful or one of the sexiest female sex symbols of our generation. However, she gained a measure of fame other than her sexy body when she bagged the leading role on the TV show Dark Angel. She was good in her portrayal that she won the praises of critics and televiewers alike. Let us get to know more about this sexy American actress via a trivia I gathered about Jessica for the fun of it.
Jessica Alba was a sickly child. Aside from moving from one place to the next because of her father’s work in the military, young Jessica could not create a meaningful friendship with her peers in school because she was always absent due to frequent sickness. In fact, as a child she suffered pneumonia four to five times a year, a collapsed lung, a ruptured appendix and a cyst in her tonsils. In addition, the young Jessica was also asthmatic. She was also diagnosed with the psychological disorder known as OCD or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Lately, she also admitted that she is suffering from ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.
Jessica Alba was raised in a Catholic home, but left the church when she was a teen. She was a Roman Catholic and in fact attended the mass on Sundays, but she felt she was judged based on her appearance. She said dirty old men in the church would hit on her. When she told her youth pastor about it, she was told she needs to wear appropriate dress and avoid provocative dress which she believed was not. That left her disillusioned with her church because she believed she was being blamed for making men attracted to her. This incident made her ashamed of her body and being a woman. The coup de grace that made her left the Catholic church was when her friends reacted negatively on her guest role as a teenage prostitute who had a throat gonorrhea in the medical drama on television, Chicago Hope. That incident was the final nail on the coffin so to speak. Although, she maintained that she still believe in God or a higher being.
Jessica Alba is a strong advocate in promoting natural products. As a sickly child, she believed that part of her health issues when she was younger was the exposure to products that have bad effects on her health. She was so convinced that many of our illnesses are caused by what we have been exposed to while growing up that she started a company in cooperation with another businessman to produce natural products that will provide American families an alternative to what are readily available in the market with harmful ingredients such as diapers, baby food among others. Go to this interesting entertainment web page for more excitement.